Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 10 Creators Update

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No more Bing!

Setting Google as the default search engine in MS Edge in 1703 using GPO

In Windows 10 1703 we have some new really great new Group Policy settings for Microsoft Edge, the most important making it possible to sync favorites between Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. We can also set the default search engine to something else than Bing with group policies.

 

To do this we first need to create an .xml file that complies with the OpenSearch 1.1 framework and we need to host that file on a Webserver that the clients can reach and it must use HTTPS.

 

Here is an .xml file that can be used to set the default search engine to Google instead of Bing using a group policy:

   Google
   Search Google
   

I learnt an interesting thing about the difference in search between bing and google.

Type in string on both under restricted search and see what appears.